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Former French president dies after coronavirus diagnosis

By Zach Halaschak
Published December 3, 2020 1:33am ET
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Former French president dies after coronavirus diagnosis
In this May 27, 2005 file photo, former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, with an EU Flag at right, attends the debate of the new European constitution at the German Upper House Bundesrat in Berlin. Valery Giscard d’Estaing, the president of France from 1974 to 1981 who became a champion of European integration, has died Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020 at the age of 94, his office and the French presidency said. | (Markus Schreiber/AP)

Valery Giscard d’Estaing, the former president of France, has died of coronavirus-related complications. He was 94.

Giscard had been hospitalized in Tours, France, with respiratory issues associated with COVID-19, and although he was briefly released from the hospital, he returned in mid-November. The former president died at a family home from complications with the virus, the Guardian reported on Wednesday.

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